By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK — The World Health Organization has released a plan to help countries wipe out trans fats from the global food supply in the next five years. The United Nations agency has in the past pushed to exterminate infectious diseases, but now it’s […]
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By Tim Sullivan And Eileen Ng The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Mahathir Mohamad is 92 years old. He is also Malaysia’s new prime minister. It’s been 37 years since he first had the job, and 15 since he retired from it. That raises an obvious question: How old […]
By Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Barack Obama won it. So did Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Now, President Donald Trump’s supporters are pushing for him to be the next U.S. leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize a move that’s being met by smirks and […]
By Jeremy Hainsworth And Rob Gillies The Associated Press VANCOUVER — A pipeline project that would vastly expand Canadian oil exports to Asia is dividing the country, pitting indigenous groups and people who fear damage to the scenic coastline near Vancouver against the central government and the influential energy industry. […]
The Associated Press PARIS — France’s finance minister says European countries should push back harder against the Trump administration over the Iran nuclear deal and not act as “vassals” to the U.S. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran accord isn’t a reason to dump […]
By Gregory Katz The Associated Press WINDSOR, England — Few towns are as stereotypically English as Windsor, the bucolic riverside locale where Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle will get married on May 19. And few towns are as pleasing when a warm spring sun bakes off the morning […]
By Matt O’Brien The Associated Press Artificial intelligence has a new challenge: Whether and how to alert people who may not know they’re talking to a robot. On Tuesday, Google showed off a computer assistant that makes convincingly human-sounding phone calls , at least in its prerecorded demonstration. But the […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. has signed a deal to buy Helly Hansen, a maker of sportswear and workwear based in Norway, for $985 million. Under the deal for the company controlled by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canadian Tire also assume $50 million in debt. […]
By Dan Joling The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Residents of a village of 110 on the Alaska Peninsula see the occasional walrus in Bering Sea waters, but when 200 packed a beach just outside the community, it took them by surprise. Port Heiden’s Tribal Council President John Christensen, Jr. […]
By Sophia Yan And Audrey McAvoy The Associated Press PAHOA, Hawaii — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano could soon send boulders and ash shooting out of its summit crater in the kind of explosive eruption last displayed nearly a century ago. Scientists said Wednesday the risks of an explosive summit eruption will […]
By Matthew LeeJill Colvin And Zeke Miller The Associated Press JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — Staging a made-for-TV, still-of-the-night arrival ceremony, President Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Speaking early […]
By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Three judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. Now, a lawsuit filed last week in Texas seeks to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and […]
